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 800 quid and looks a bit home made... Bored Lord G?
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 Aye, waiting for the 06.00 onslaught when all the wards 'wake up'. 
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 It probably is home made, Lightweight are an extremely specialist small volume company. IIRC they made some wheels for Armstrong to help him win one of the mountain stages in Le Tour a few years back, he was told that under no circumstances should he descend on them! In keeping with my 'if they can't make a complete matching group set' policy, I won't be buying one of those mechs.
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 Well you can certainly tell they don't have a marketing department with a name of such ambitious imagination!
Much like poshbike.com I just look at such things as a form of titillation, in reality I'm going to depot to pick up my On One this morning
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 At least on a roadie you're less likely to twat it on a rock 5 mins into your first ride with it. The Poshbikes/weightweenies thing really amuses me - such immense costs for such minimal true benefit but they all do it anyways 
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 *tuts, shakes head*
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13lb Full Susser? - WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAATTTT???! *head explodes*
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 But if you are a fat cat banker type who earns more taking a shit than I earn all year these things are pocket money items.
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 But if you are a fat cat banker type who earns more taking a shit than I earn all year these things are pocket money items.
But then you wouldn't need an 800 quid rear mech on a posey polished titanium single speed, with matching messenger bag and capris.
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 I wouldn't dare sit on that Litespeed, let alone ride it. Fork: Rock Shox Sid AS Tuned 865g That'll be the "tuning" that involves taking the damper out, then.
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 All this shit about weight and they still stick two full waterbottles on the bikes! Now if they're reeeeelly clever they'd devise a way of making water lighter!
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I wouldn't dare sit on that Litespeed, let alone ride it. Fork: Rock Shox Sid AS Tuned 865g That'll be the "tuning" that involves taking the damper out, then.
What kind of mentalist would do that?
*awaits Mr Evans response*
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 Here I am winning an NPS race on a Reba World Cup with the MC Damping removed  It rode really nicely, until I sent it to Tim Flooks, never worked right after that! Some of the stuff on WW is ridiculous though, and by all accounts that Lightweight mech is terrible! I rode with a chap last winter who was using a set of their wheels (c£3000), I questioned why he rode them in winter, he said they were his winter pair, he has 2 pairs for summer use too! He'd had them 10 years without ever touching them, which is pretty impressive!
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Here I am winning an NPS race on a Reba World Cup with the MC Damping removed Just the MC bit? Or the whole lot? 'cos that's what the mentalists do, there's usually nothing in the left leg at all. He'd had them 10 years without ever touching them, which is pretty impressive! This is on a road bike, yes? Did he not use brakes?
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 If your taking all the damping gubbings out surely you might as well run carbon rigid jobbies as they'll be lighter still, or am I missing the point?
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 thing is wiggle import the Lightweight stuff so they will be on about 60% mark up so a ridiculous price but a lot of profit for wiggle.
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